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Callsigns in Germany
Prefix and digit tell you the purpose and licence class, as laid down in the callsign plan of the Bundesnetzagentur (BNetzA, German regulator), valid from 1 April 2025. Which series are open to you is shown by the finder at /rufzeichenplan.
- DB, DC, DD, DF, DG, DH, DJ, DK, DL, DM mit Ziffer 1 bis 9
- personal callsigns for class A, plus DA1 and DA2
- DO1 bis DO9
- personal callsigns for class E, plus DA6; around 8,900 licences (list of 14 September 2026)
- DN9
- the only series for personal callsigns of class N
- DN1 bis DN8
- training callsigns: none issued since 24 June 2025, valid until 31 December 2028
- DB0, DM0, DO0
- repeaters and beacons (DO0 for class E)
- DA0, DF0, DK0, DL0
- club stations with 2 or 3 letters in the suffix
- Suffix mit 1 Buchstaben
- club stations only, roughly DQ0A to DR9Z, for up to 5 years
- Sonderrufzeichen
- club station with 4 to 7 characters in the suffix for a special occasion, one year at most
- DP
- club stations, repeaters and studies at an extraterritorial location (DP0 to DP2), DP8 also without
- DR1 bis DR3 (KSB)
- club stations for members of the emergency services (BOS), only for emergencies, disasters and exercises
- DR4 bis DR6 (KSO)
- club stations of emergency communication groups; no contests, /Ueb during exercises
- PZ, KS
- personal assignment, assignment for a club station
- /p
- portable: a handheld or temporarily fixed station
- /m, /mm, /am
- mobile in a land vehicle or on inland waters, maritime mobile at sea, aeronautical mobile
- /T
- training operation (trainee), mandatory; goes before /p or /r, so /Tp, /Tr
- /r
- remote operation, optional
- DL/… und DO/…
- short-term licence for foreign radio amateurs not resident in Germany, class A or E, for up to three months
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